Eastern News

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 21, 23 September 1915, Page 6

Eastern News

[ "THE MAILED FIST." MORE GERMAN BOASTING. [UNiTEr Press Association.] (Received 1.25 p.m.) Amsterdam, .September 22. (ierman newspapers are boasting that Serbia will feel the force of .the mailed list, u-nd that the Germans will accomplish what the Austrian Army was unable to do. MISCELLANEOUS. Petrogradj September 22. General' Hindenburg's trap is closing, but too late. The enemy have forced their way for thirty miles down the Vilna-Lida railway to Biniakoni, bTTt the Russians by driving back the invaders from Malodetchno broadened the passage whereby they are effecting their • retirement, after a fierce battle. The foe is crossing the Vilia and p'rcj-' feeding, but the bulk of General Eit-' chorn's artillery and'- infantry, after terrible losses, has halted at Vilna. The German infantry present a pitiable spectacle. -The men are bearded and round-shouldered; and hardly r able to move under their equipment, but the numbers of artillery and machineguns are impressive. Even the cavalry and motor-cyclists are supplied with machine-guns. . : ,: General Russky? s . scheme of a rearguard action J,»as slowed ,up the German advance on the Dvina, and it is now reduced* to a costly series of attacks' upon trenches. There is every sign of an earl.V winter, the country already being swept by cold raw winds. • ; ; Paris,- September 21. Col. Adland, the French military correspondent with , the Russians at Vilna, escaped during the town's encirclement. He says that the situation, which was momentarily disquieting, is now good, owing to the desperate fighting. The retreat along the Vilna4»*sa railway route, and "hence to the Minsk line, is lining carried out,under favorable conditions.